Leaving the flanks WIDE open

The_Chieftain: The enemy's gate is down. Forget about the map orientation, and orient on the objective.   Here's a counterpoint. A flank only exists if a team draws a line on the map and says "this shall be our line, those are our flanks". If you start on Prok Encounter on the South, people automatically envision a line facing North, with flanks East and West. Why? There is nothing on the west side to draw a line to. The only reason people give is "to protect a flank" which they invented in the first place.   Hypothetical. Ignore the west. Nothing there but trees. Take your whole damned force, go East. Swamp whatever enemy went to the cap by force of numbers. Then set up a new defensive line facing West. Your flanks are North and South. Those are the flanks which you should be worried about.   in a nutshell, the rule for survival is to avoid the enemy from attacking a unit from two directions at once. The location for this is irrelevant.   if you find yourself utterly alone on one side of the map, consider the possibility that you are not trying to cover the team's flank, but are instead covering the map's flank. The map isn't playing, go catch up with your team, where there is force of numbers.